Alabama Shakes to headline The Tuscaloosa Get Up 2 at Bama Theatre in December

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Oct 14, 2013 at 5:00 PMOct 14, 2013 at 5:22 PM

The Alabama Shakes will get down in the Druid City once again for The Tuscaloosa Get Up 2, Dec. 19 at the Bama Theatre. Opening acts include St. Paul and the Broken Bones, and Doc Dailey and the Magnolia Devil.

By Mark Hughes CobbEntertainment Editor | The Tuscaloosa News

The Alabama Shakes will get down in the Druid City once again for The Tuscaloosa Get Up 2, Dec. 19 at the Bama Theatre.Opening acts include St. Paul and the Broken Bones, and Doc Dailey and the Magnolia Devil.The first Tuscaloosa Get Up, in March 2012, sold out the Bama Theater for a show also headlined by the Shakes, with The Dexateens and Lee Baines III & The Glory Fires; it raised more than $20,000 for tornado relief efforts in the area. This December's show will likewise be a charitable effort, for local causes, but also Central Oklahoma Habitat for Humanity."The first one was so successful, such a good time, had such good energy, that we wanted to bring it back," said Bo Hicks, whose Druid City Brewing Co. is co-sponsoring the event with wellthatscool.com. Hicks has a long-standing relationship with the Shakes, who played events promoted and created by him and others before their rocket ride to fame launched. Though the Shakes are out on a never-ending headlining tour, stopping off to play "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" and other gigs, the band is always ready to return to Tuscaloosa. Lead singer Brittany Howard doesn't forget who treated them well before anyone recognized the name."I love places like Egan's, like Green Bar," Howard said in an interview last year. "I love Tuscaloosa. It's one of the first places that ever treated us right. People came out to shows and gave us support."In addition to benefitting the Bama Theatre Restoration Fund and The Red Barn Foundation on the Little Cahaba, Tuscaloosa Get Up 2 will be reaching out to help Moore, Okla., another city that, like Tuscaloosa, has recently been devastated by tornadoes. Hicks remembered all the national and international outpouring of support for Tuscaloosa, and wanted to show it wasn't forgotten."Moore jumped through a lot of the same things we did, so we thought it'd be really awesome to try to give some back, to sort of pay it forward for all that we got when we were in need," he said.Because the Shakes have gotten such national buzz in the last few years, 300 or more of the tickets will be on sale just at local businesses such as Druid City Brewing and the Guitar Gallery."That's to make sure they don't all get gobbled up online," Hicks said.Tickets will be $40, with 100 percent of that price going to the charities. They'll be for sale online beginning at noon Wednesday through www.brownpapertickets.com/event/489959. Tax-deductible sponsorships for the event are available. To learn more, contact Hicks via email at bo@druidcitybrewing.com or call 205-886-8140.